Rice and lackey Zelikow covered up 9/11

New York Times reporter Philip Shenon has a new book out, The Commission. It reveals that 9/11 commission executive director Philip Zelikow conspired to cover up the administration's responsibility for the attack. He also tried to have lies about al-Qaeda links with Iraq inserted into the 9/11 commission report.

The Post-Intelligencer calls his position with the commission Fox in the Hen House.

On the other hand, Shenon's employer The New York Times calls it a Tragicomic Tale. Tragic, yes, but what in fucking creation could they think is comic about the situation?

Dan Froomkin's article is called The White House Mole. Despite my rants about Rice's mischaracterization of the August 6 PDB as a 'historical document', I had not recalled the July 10 Rice-Black-Tenet meeting, in which Rice gave the CIA men's warning about an al-Qaeda attack the brush-off. Froomkin reminds us of that travesty, which was reported by Bob Woodward in State of Denial (which sits unread on a shelf here at home; abject confession noted.) Shenon reported that this meeting was withheld from the commission. We also now know that tapes of CIA interrogations of al-Qaeda members were withheld illegally from the commission.

I am practically speechless at the audacity of these criminals.